According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

Thus, Abulafia in the 13th century assumed that the language spoken in Paradise had been different from Hebrew, and rejected the claim then current also among Christian authors, that a child left unexposed to linguistic stimulus would automatically begin to speak in Hebrew.

Thus in the spring of 1912, consultations between the various Christian Balkan nations resulted in a network of military alliances which became known as the Balkan League.

Thus, Cyril followed his uncle in a position that had become powerful and influential, rivalling that of the prefect in a time of turmoil and frequently violent conflict between the cosmopolitan city's Pagan, Jewish, and Christian inhabitants.

Thus, the remnants of the Springfield Presbytery became the Christian Church.

Thus rta bears a resemblance to the ancient Chinese concept of tao and the Heraclitan, Stoic or Christian conceptions of the logos.

The media, in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution to a Western audience described it as a " fundamentalist version of Islam " by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the U. S. Thus was born the term " Islamic fundamentalist ", which would come to be one of the most common usages of the term in the following years.

Thus, he challenged the arguments of clerical intellectuals who wanted to limit access to classical sources to prevent any moral harm to Christian readers.

Thus, the derogatory meaning of the word " myth " is the traditional Christian meaning, and the expression " Christian mythology ", as used in academic discourse, may offend Christians for this reason.

Thus Hinduism's consideration of itself as an Eastern extension of the Christian Gospel, however, is neither unique to Yogananda or his disciple, Swami Kriyananda.

Thus it follows the path starting from the more modern period of the 15th century onward ( e. g. neo-Alexandrian, hermeticism, Christian Kaballah, Rosicrucianism, Alchemy etc .).

Thus the definition of Christian propitiation asserted by Calvin, Packer and Murray holds that within God there is a dichotomy of love and anger, but through propitiation love trumps anger, abolishing it.

Thus the northern desert region of the country contained semi-autonomous feudal Muslim states, while the southern population was predominantly Christian and Animist.

Thus the transition from the ' old ' traditions to the new Christian religion also contributed to the adoption of Greek words into the Coptic religious lexicon.

Thus, upon marriage, the wife of The Prince of Wales assumes the styles and titles – Her Royal Highness The Princess ( husband ’ s Christian name ) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay, Countess of Chester, Countess of Carrick, Baroness of Renfrew, Lady of the Isles and Princess of Scotland.

Thus, " faith alone " is foundational to Protestantism, and distinguishes it from other Christian denominations.

Thus, Christian right leaders have argued that the Establishment Clause does not prohibit the display of religion in the public sphere.

Thus, many Jews feel that this document is white-washing Christian responsibility for the Holocaust.

Thus, heretical texts do not turn up as palimpsests, washed clean and overwritten, as pagan ones do ; many early Christian texts have been as thoroughly " lost " as if they had been publicly burnt.

Thus it seems possible that the iron point of the Lombardic royal lance might have been recast in the 7th century in order to enshrine one of the 1st century Roman nails that St. Helena was reputed to have found at Calvary and brought to Milan, thus giving a new Christian sacred aura to the old pagan royal lance.

Thus the English Jews, by an act of omission, as it were, became full citizens, subject to no more disabilities than those inherent in their own unwillingness, like Catholics and Nonconformists, to belong to the Church of England or, in their particular case, to swear Christian oaths.

Thus the Christian individualism of the Quakers, that each person shares the " inner light " and the Arminianism of the Evangelicals were both differently based from the Lockean or Kantian individualism of a Philosophe or a Utilitarian, but all recognized the equal moral significance of the human person and that the disregard of it was wrong.

Many criticisms of Christianity can be found in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in particular Christian values of good and evil and its belief in an afterlife.

" Thus, state laws purporting to nullify federal statutes or to exempt states and their citizens from federal statutes have only symbolic impact.

Thus the shield was symbolic of the individual soldier's subordination to his unit, his integral part in its success, and his solemn responsibility to his comrades in arms – messmates and friends, often close blood relations.

Thus, formalism need not mean that mathematics is nothing more than a meaningless symbolic game.

Thus the Báb taught that with his revelation the end times ended and the age of resurrection had started, and that the end-times were symbolic as the end of the past prophetic cycle.

Thus, they wrote in a very metaphorical and suggestive manner, endowing particular images or objects with symbolic meaning.

Thus neither an emperor nor his heir had an inherent " right " to rule, and did so through military power and the Senate's symbolic consent.

" Thus the record is best seen as a time capsule or a symbolic statement more than a serious attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life.

Thus the seed of Black Rock City was germinated, as a fellowship, organized by Law and Mikel, based on Evans ' idea, along with Harvey and James ' symbolic man.

Thus, specific theories, hypotheses, and conceptualizations must be ( and have successfully been ) derived from the general framework that symbolic interactionism provides before interactionist theories can be assessed on the basis of the criteria a good theory ( e. g., containing falsifiable hypotheses ), or interactionist-inspired conceptualizations can be assessed on the basis of effective conceptualizations.

Thus, to Mead and symbolic interactionists, consciousness is not separated from action and interaction, but is an integral part of both.

Thus the books are closely related to the personal symbolic picture-text combinations called personal devices, known in Italy as and in France as.

Thus, this ram is interchangeable with Isaac, as any animal korban is symbolic of its human owner.

Thus, a definite description ( of the general form ' the F is G ') becomes the following existentially quantified phrase in classic symbolic logic ( where ' x ' and ' y ' are variables and ' F ' and ' G ' are predicates-in the example above, F would be " is an emperor of Germany ", and G would be " is gray "):

Thus, an indefinite description ( of the general form ' an D is A ') becomes the following existentially quantified phrase in classic symbolic logic ( where ' x ' and ' y ' are variables and ' D ' and ' A ' are predicates ):

Thus the dedication is a symbolic " marriage " of the pubescent girl to the temple's deity.

Thus, " a symbolic form ... is not some ' intermediary ' in a process of ' communication ' that transmits the meaning intended by the author to the audience ; it is instead the result of a complex process of creation ( the poietic process ) that has to do with the form as well as the content of the work ; it is also the point of departure for a complex process of reception ( the esthesic process ) that reconstructs a ' message.

Thus, " a symbolic form ... is not some ' intermediary ' in a process of ' communication ' that transmits the meaning intended by the author to the audience ; it is instead the result of a complex process of creation ( the poietic process ) that has to do with the form as well as the content of the work ; it is also the point of departure for a complex process of reception ( the esthesic process that reconstructs a ' message.

Thus, a theory has been put forward, that the story in the Gospel was merely symbolic, wanting to draw a parallel between Jacob being visited by God and the disciples being visited by Jesus.

Thus the sense of the abject complements the existence of the superego-the representative of culture, of the symbolic order: in Kristeva's aphorism, " To each ego its object, to each superego its abject ".

Thus perhaps repression produces the object that it comes to deny ; that is, the paternal law ( the symbolic ) invents a notion of " feminine " that it then " represses.

Thus, scholar Aihe Wang views the defeat of the King of Huainan as symbolic of China's increasing cultural centralization during the Han Dynasty.

Thus the cross product may be computed by writing the " symbolic determinant "

Thus differences between meanings structure our perception ; there is no real chair except insofar as we are manipulating symbolic systems.

Thus, rather than being devoid of meaning, Kūkai suggests that dharanis are in fact saturated with meaning – every syllable is symbolic on multiple levels.